I use livejournal. ANd when i am really pissed it is a good way to just rant on whatever you want to. This is especially true if you have a network of friends who use an online journal. I would say that a regular journal would be a stress erliever for the same reason, it allows you to put out all of those hurts you get duriung the day. ANother thing that it is good with is that it allows you to remember things that happened and how you felt then better than if you just tried to remember them. I'd recommend it.

I keep a journal on my laptop. I also have a journal on LJ, but it really is pretty lame (I never know what to write considering other people read it).

I've found that unfortunately it seems like I don't have time to write in my journal when I'm stressed, so by the time I get back to it I'm much calmer. I do find that it helps when I just have a lot of things on my mind, or if I'm having problems with my best friend or boyfriend. That way I can get everything off my mind without saying or doing something that I may later forget.

I started writing diaries/journals when I was 11. I use typical notebooks, though occasionally I get a slightly more fancy hardcover book. Sometimes I write more than at other times. By now I have entire backpacks and a suitcase full of journals. It's a part of my life, and I'll probably continue writing journals on into old age. A stress reliever? I think it is, or can be. But I also write down things I think I might want to remember years from now. It's interesting, several years later, to look back and reread something you once wrote. Life changes, we change, our perspectives change. It's neat to write journals.

Xanga-free for...ten days? It's hard, but xanga is so bad for me. I end up saying things just to get attention or making indirect violent threats at exes...kinda defeats the purpose of stress-relief. I write in a real paper journal very erractically and its frustrating because I don't write nearly as fast as I'd like, but I'm all for pretty hardcover journals.

I send compulsive emails to my friend which is kind of like a journal because I write anything I'm mad about or just anything at all, and it makes more sense to me than writing in a journal (since I always feel stupid rereading journal entries) because the emails are actually going somewhere.

i use blurty for my fun stuff but i keep a physical journal of all the real stuff at home. IN CODE. i made the code up freshman year so my sister cant read it and i find it to be an amazing stress reliever.